20 killed in Pakistan road accident
Monday - November 20, 2017 2:04 pm ,
Category : WORLD
Islamabad Nov 20 (IANS) Twenty persons were killed and two injured on Monday in a road accident in Pakistan s Sindh province police said.
A senior police official said the accident took place when an overloaded coal truck fell on a passenger van while trying to overtake it near Shah Hussain area in Khairpur district reports Xinhua news agency.
According to data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics around 9 000 road accidents were reported every year since 2011 in the country killing more than 4 500 people on average annually.
Traffic officials said that 90 per cent of the accidents in Pakistan are caused by human error.
--IANS
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